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Strange History
Real events from the record that still do not add up: Lincoln's dream of his own death, the skull said to be Hitler's, lost colonies, ghost ships and signals from space, with every source shown.
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Dreams, signals and riddlesAbraham Lincoln's dream of his own deathA friend of Abraham Lincoln wrote that, days before he was shot, Lincoln described a dream of a corpse in the White House and a soldier saying the President had been killed by an assassin.Dreams, signals and riddlesAdmiral Byrd, the polar flights and the 'hollow earth' diaryRichard Byrd was a real polar flyer whose 1926 North Pole claim is now doubted, and a 'secret diary' says he flew into a hidden world inside the Earth in 1947, when records put him at the other end of the planet.Unsolved disappearancesAmelia Earhart's disappearanceOn July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific while trying to find tiny Howland Island, and the last words heard from her plane are still in a Coast Guard radio log.Strange deaths and remainsThe 1876 plot to steal Lincoln's bodyOn election night in 1876, Chicago counterfeiters broke into Abraham Lincoln's tomb to steal his body and trade it for $200,000 and the release of their jailed engraver.Dreams, signals and riddlesThe Dancing Plague of 1518In the summer of 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced in the streets for days and weeks and could not stop, and the city council hired musicians to keep them going.Strange deaths and remainsThe Dyatlov Pass incidentIn 1959 nine experienced hikers in Russia's Ural Mountains cut their way out of their tent at night and fled into deadly cold, and some were found with injuries no one could explain.Unsolved disappearancesThe Lost Colony of RoanokeIn 1590 John White came back to the English settlement on Roanoke Island and found everyone gone, with the word CROATOAN carved on a post.Unsolved disappearancesThe Mary Celeste ghost shipIn December 1872 sailors found the cargo ship Mary Celeste drifting in the Atlantic, still able to sail and full of supplies, with all ten people gone and the lifeboat missing.Dreams, signals and riddlesThe Wow! signalIn 1977 an Ohio radio telescope picked up a strong, narrow signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. An astronomer circled it and wrote 'Wow!', and it has never been heard again.
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Unsolved disappearancesD. B. Cooper, the hijacker who jumpedIn 1971 a quiet man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a jet, collected $200,000 and four parachutes, and jumped out the back over the forests of Washington State. He was never found.Strange deaths and remainsThe Princes in the TowerIn 1483 the boy king Edward V and his younger brother were taken into the Tower of London and never seen again. Bones found there in 1674 sit in an urn in Westminster Abbey and have never been DNA tested.Strange deaths and remainsThe Somerton Man (Tamam Shud case)In 1948 a well-dressed man was found dead on an Australian beach with a scrap of paper in his pocket reading 'Tamam Shud', meaning 'it is ended', torn from a book of Persian poetry.
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Strange deaths and remainsThe 'Hitler skull' in MoscowFor decades Russia displayed a piece of skull with a bullet hole as Adolf Hitler's, until a 2009 DNA test by American scientists said it came from a woman.Dreams, signals and riddlesThe Voynich manuscriptA hand-written book full of strange plants, bathing women and star charts, in an alphabet no one has ever read, kept at Yale University.
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